The Spirit of Things Podcast
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The Spirit of Things is an adventure into religion and spirituality. It explores contemporary values and beliefs as expressed through ritual, art, music, and sacred texts.
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girijad83, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: girijad83
from India
The Spirit of Things podcast by Rachael Kohn is the podcast of the program with the same name aired on Australia's ABC radio national, which can be found at www.abc.au/rn. The podcast starts with a song inspired by nature, which is sung melodiously. The podcast is an adventure into spirituality and religion, and how it is related to culture, art, music, rituals, and sacred texts.
The podcast contains interviews with people who have either been studying these topics for a long time, or generally have been affected by their faith during troubled times. It is not restricted to any specific religion, but draws powers from every religion and faith, and the underlying sense of communal harmony that is essential to bring about in today's world of destruction, greed, and power.
Rachael has a very clear voice, and the interviews are held face-to-face, which makes this podcast stand out from those that carry their interviews on the phone, making it difficult to understand the speaker. The only drawback that I found with this podcast is that the total volume of the podcast is a bit lower than it should be.
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2010-02-07 The Global Ethic
Author: ABC Radio National
Sun, Feb 07, 2010
Rachael talks with Priest, Professor and Prophet, Hans Kung, the dissident Swiss Catholic whose concept of a Global Ethic has ignited the imaginations of religious, business and political leaders around the world, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. We also hear from the Secretary General of the Global Ethic Foundation, Stephan Schlensog, who is expanding the Global Ethic into education. And art historian Rosemary Crumlin reflects on the role of art in prompting 'the naked question'.
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2010-01-31 Women Hold Up Half the Sky
Author: ABC Radio National
Sun, Jan 31, 2010
So why are they the worldīs poorest and most oppressed people? Sr Joan Chittister is an outspoken champion of womenīs rights as the Co-Chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, and sheīs frank about the need for religion to reform itself if it is to stand up for women. Dr. Azza Karam of the United Nations Population Fund and Tim Rwabahemba of UNAIDS also talk about their work with faith-based organisations.
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2010-01-24 Harpurīs Heaven and Hell and the Cosmos
Author: ABC Radio National
Sun, Jan 24, 2010
Tom Harpur is Canadaīs best known religion journalist who went from being an Anglican priest with a famous radio show, Harpurīs Heaven and Hell, to being an advocate of a cosmic spirituality which denies the supremacy of Christianity. The author of The Pagan Christ which became a TV documentary, and a number of books on spirituality, Tom Harpur speaks to Rachael Kohn in Toronto.
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2010-01-17 Bhagwan Blues
Author: ABC Radio National
Sun, Jan 17, 2010
Jane Stork, a young Western Australian married woman paid one of the highest prices for following a popular guru of the 1970s and 80s, when she was convicted for conspiracy to murder in 2006. The Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-1990) attracted thousands of followers in the 1970s and 80s, known as Orange People or Rajneeshees. But he also stirred controversy and in the mid-80s a host of legal and criminal issues caused the breakdown of his experimental town, Rajneeshpuram, in Oregon, U.S.A. Jane Stork tells her incredible story as a Rajneeshee, while engineer Rob Curtis, a late-comer to Rajneeshpuram, explains why it remains a happy memory for him.
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2002
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T007345
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